Nasha Russia
Encyclopedia
Nasha Russia is a Russian sketch show created by Comedy Club Productions. It was written by former KVN
player Semyon Slepakov and producer Garik Martirosyan
. This show has not got a license from the famous English sketch show Little Britain
.
s from former Soviet republic Tajikistan
. They work for their boss Leonid in Moscow
and call him "nasyalnika" (Russian: насяльника, changed form of word "начальник" - boss). Ravshan does all the talking in bad Russian and Jumshud is silent for the most time, presumably because he does not understand Russian. The workers' job is to make repairs in apartments, but something goes wrong every time. For example, they can't fix the door, the window or the balcony. When the boss asks Ravshan a question, he stupidly repeats it at least twice before answering. Every time they do something wrong, "Nasyalnika" calls them idiots. But when their boss is away and doesn't see them, they usually discuss some serious philosophic questions in their invented "native language" (translated into russian with subtitles).
steel factory number 69 (first the authors wanted to depict factory number 68, which actually exists, but the factory's manager refused to have it on the show; he said that there are no gays at his factory). Ivan Dulin is in love with his boss Mikhalych (Михалыч is a patronymic, his first and last names vary from season to season), who is heterosexual and refuses to sleep with Dulin. The gay miller constantly comes up with clever plots to seduce Mikhalych, but fails. At the end of most sketches, some factory workers walk in on Dulin and Mikhalych's quarrels and assume they are having sexual intercourse
.
and likes to argue with his TV every evening. He is very critical of the programs he sees and always makes fun of celebrities and news reports. On nights when his wife is not at home, Belyakov sometimes watches pornography, which he also makes fun of. In the third season, he watches TV with his son and explains every TV program.
plays in the Fourth Division and keeps losing every single game with a high score like 20 to 0. Their coach Evgeny Mikhailovich Kishelsky (Евгений Михайлович Кишельский) is a sadist
. He enjoys beating the players up after every game. Normally he nearly kills goalkeeper Gatalsky (Гатальский) or forward Prokopenko (Прокопенко). Sometimes he argues with the referee. "Gazmyas" was a parody on Russian football, but after the Russia national football team
's EURO-2008 success, the "Gazmyas" part of the show was removed and jokes about Russian football became less common. In the third season, Omskiy Gazmyas becomes "Omskaya Gazmyasochka" when Kishelsky dresses his players up like women in the hopes of playing against women and thus winning. However, this plan does not work either and the team still loses all of their games.
Ludwig Aristarhovich (Людвиг Аристархович) lives in Saint Petersburg
. Unlike all other St-Petersburgians, who are considered very polite and civilized, Ludwig Aristarhovich enjoys playing nasty tricks on the tenants. These tricks include leaving excrements at people's doorsteps and writing inappropriate graffiti
on the walls. He also hates one of the tenants, professor Zvyagincev (Звягинцев).
, they make several unsuccessful attempts at hooking up with hot girls. Slavik is the active one, he is always coming up with not-so-clever plans to lure the girls in. Dimon is usually too scared to act these plans out properly and humiliates the pair of them. In the first season the boys are too shy to buy condoms. In the second and third seasons they try clubbing and buying pornography at a local video store, and in the fourth season they try their luck at the girls vacationing in Anapa
.
is the only honest man in his city and he never takes bribes. His wife and son secretly hate him for his honesty because it is the reason for the family's utter poverty.
(called "Penza-Kopeisk", Пенза-Копейск) and get into arguments. This highway is referred to as one of the worst in Russia ("Only here can you find a pothole the size of a KaMAZ
"; "The workers took the secret of its construction to the grave."). The prostitute makes fun of the policeman for making less money than she does.
in a sushi restaurant. She is looking for a man and she is only nice to the male customers. The female customers, particularly those who are there with a man, are rudely insulted and brutally thrown out of the restaurant.
. She tricks her students into bringing her money from their parents, saying that the money is going for a good cause. She also encourages her students to swear, drink, and steal.
) and Boroda (Борода, lit. beard) live on the Rublevka
highway. Like all the people living there, they are spoiled and they can have anything they want just by looking in the garbage bins, where they find computers, appliances, and Louis Vuitton
bags. In the fourth season Siphon and Boroda become government officials (see Mamonov and Pronin).
) in Pyatigorsk
. He is very emotional about the stories he reports, gets into arguments with his cameraman Rudik (Рудик), swears and acts in an unprofessional manner.
Gena and Vovan from Nizhny Tagil
Antalya
: Gena (Sergei Svetlakov) and Vovan (Mihail Galustyan) break away from Nizhny Tagil
in full with his video camera on holiday in Turkey
. However, they behave quite casually: laugh, drink, walk, spoiled state property, shitting in the pool, making fun of staff and visitors to the Turkish hotel. Constantly used obscene language. Vovan in almost every series is drunk and speaks only one sentence: "Tagiiiil". Sometimes, after the word Gena adds, "Tagil really rules" Humor of this story line is that the behavior of Gena and Vova is a parody of the behavior of many Russians abroad. And Gena, and Vovan - both married, respectively, and Tanyuha mr. Gena, Ksjuha mr. Vovan. Also, the Gena have a son, Dima.
: Philip Valentinovich (Sergei Svetlakov) and Anna Viktorovna — pensioner
s, who gave 50 years of life working in research institutes. All problems are solved with the use of arms. Do not talk (possibly dumb). The plot lies a satire on the disregard for people of retirement age, the sketch contains black humor (except for the first and second in their history). To all strangers and phenomena are extremely aggressive, even to the innocuous. At the end of the sketch is the tango “The weary sun.”
: Football fans: Vasya, a fan from St. Petersburg "Neva" (Mihail Galustyan) and Valera, supporter of the Moscow "Muscovite
or Moskvich ( Москвич)" (Roman Yunusov) together are treated in hospital after the match as a result of the mass brawl and end up in the same room. Even dressed in cast, they manage to do harm to each other. It is clear that football clubs fictional, but their logo - an obvious allusion to "Spartak Moscow" and "Zenit SPB", the fans who have hostile relations with each other.
KVN
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961...
player Semyon Slepakov and producer Garik Martirosyan
Garik Martirosyan
Garik Martirosyan is a neurologist, entertainer, TV host, actor, comedian and singer. He's the co-producer and host of the Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel ТНТ.- Biography :...
. This show has not got a license from the famous English sketch show Little Britain
Little Britain
Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...
.
Content
Intro speech sounds at the beginning of every episode. It always changes with coming of every next episode of Nasha Russia. Here is an intro speech from the first TV episode.Ravshan and Jumshud
Ravshan and Jumshud (Равшан и Джамшуд), the most popular characters of the sketch show, are gastarbeiterGastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter is German for "guest worker." It refers to migrant workers who had moved to West Germany mainly in the 1960s and 70s, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker programme...
s from former Soviet republic Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
. They work for their boss Leonid in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and call him "nasyalnika" (Russian: насяльника, changed form of word "начальник" - boss). Ravshan does all the talking in bad Russian and Jumshud is silent for the most time, presumably because he does not understand Russian. The workers' job is to make repairs in apartments, but something goes wrong every time. For example, they can't fix the door, the window or the balcony. When the boss asks Ravshan a question, he stupidly repeats it at least twice before answering. Every time they do something wrong, "Nasyalnika" calls them idiots. But when their boss is away and doesn't see them, they usually discuss some serious philosophic questions in their invented "native language" (translated into russian with subtitles).
Ivan Dulin and Mikhalych
Ivan Dulin (Иван Дулин) is the first homosexual milling-machine operator in the world. He works at the ChelyabinskChelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...
steel factory number 69 (first the authors wanted to depict factory number 68, which actually exists, but the factory's manager refused to have it on the show; he said that there are no gays at his factory). Ivan Dulin is in love with his boss Mikhalych (Михалыч is a patronymic, his first and last names vary from season to season), who is heterosexual and refuses to sleep with Dulin. The gay miller constantly comes up with clever plots to seduce Mikhalych, but fails. At the end of most sketches, some factory workers walk in on Dulin and Mikhalych's quarrels and assume they are having sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
.
Sergey Belyakov
Sergey Yurievich Belyakov (Сергей Юрьевич Беляков) lives in TaganrogTaganrog
Taganrog is a seaport city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the north shore of Taganrog Bay , several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population: -History of Taganrog:...
and likes to argue with his TV every evening. He is very critical of the programs he sees and always makes fun of celebrities and news reports. On nights when his wife is not at home, Belyakov sometimes watches pornography, which he also makes fun of. In the third season, he watches TV with his son and explains every TV program.
F.C. Gazmyas
Football club (soccer team) "Gazmyas" (Russian: Газмяс, or "Gasmeat") from OmskOmsk
-History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes...
plays in the Fourth Division and keeps losing every single game with a high score like 20 to 0. Their coach Evgeny Mikhailovich Kishelsky (Евгений Михайлович Кишельский) is a sadist
Sadism and masochism as medical terms
In psychiatry, the terms sadism and masochism describe a personality type characterized by the actor or actrix deriving pleasure and gratification from inflicting physical pain and humiliation ; and from suffering pain and humiliation upon the self ; such pleasure often is sexual, but not...
. He enjoys beating the players up after every game. Normally he nearly kills goalkeeper Gatalsky (Гатальский) or forward Prokopenko (Прокопенко). Sometimes he argues with the referee. "Gazmyas" was a parody on Russian football, but after the Russia national football team
Russia national football team
The Russia national football team represents Russia in association football and is controlled by the Russian Football Union , the governing body for football in Russia. Russia's home grounds are Luzhniki Stadium, Lokomotiv Stadium , and Petrovsky Stadium in St.Petersburg and their head coach is...
's EURO-2008 success, the "Gazmyas" part of the show was removed and jokes about Russian football became less common. In the third season, Omskiy Gazmyas becomes "Omskaya Gazmyasochka" when Kishelsky dresses his players up like women in the hopes of playing against women and thus winning. However, this plan does not work either and the team still loses all of their games.
Ludwig Aristarhovich
The janitorJanitor
A janitor or custodian is a professional who takes care of buildings, such as hospitals and schools. Janitors are responsible primarily for cleaning, and often some maintenance and security...
Ludwig Aristarhovich (Людвиг Аристархович) lives in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
. Unlike all other St-Petersburgians, who are considered very polite and civilized, Ludwig Aristarhovich enjoys playing nasty tricks on the tenants. These tricks include leaving excrements at people's doorsteps and writing inappropriate graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
on the walls. He also hates one of the tenants, professor Zvyagincev (Звягинцев).
Slavik and Dimon
Teenagers Slavik (Славик, Vyacheslav) and Dimon (Димон, Dmitry) live in KrasnodarKrasnodar
Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...
, they make several unsuccessful attempts at hooking up with hot girls. Slavik is the active one, he is always coming up with not-so-clever plans to lure the girls in. Dimon is usually too scared to act these plans out properly and humiliates the pair of them. In the first season the boys are too shy to buy condoms. In the second and third seasons they try clubbing and buying pornography at a local video store, and in the fourth season they try their luck at the girls vacationing in Anapa
Anapa
Anapa is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea near the Sea of Azov. It was originally a seaport for the Natkhuay tribe of the Adyghe people. Population: The town boasts a number of sanatoria and hotels...
.
Mamonov and Pronin
Deputies Yuri Venediktovich Pronin (Юрий Венедиктович Пронин) and Victor Kharitonovich Mamonov (Виктор Харитонович Мамонов) live in the fictional city of Nephteskvazhinsk (Нефтескважинск, or Oilderrickcity). All they ever talk about is how much they think of Russia and how they want to change things for the better. In reality, they are not doing anything, just living the good life and counting their money.Nickolay Laptev
Road patrol officer Nickolay Laptev (Николай Лаптев) from VologdaVologda
Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...
is the only honest man in his city and he never takes bribes. His wife and son secretly hate him for his honesty because it is the reason for the family's utter poverty.
Penza-Kopeisk Highway
Inspector of National Auto Inspection Gavrilov (Гаврилов) and Elvira (Эльвира) the prostitute work on the M5 highwayM5 highway (Russia)
The Russian route M5 is a major trunk road running across a distance of 1879 km from Moscow to the Ural Mountains. It is part of the European route E30 and the Trans-Siberian Highway....
(called "Penza-Kopeisk", Пенза-Копейск) and get into arguments. This highway is referred to as one of the worst in Russia ("Only here can you find a pothole the size of a KaMAZ
Kamaz
KAMAZ is a Russian truck manufacturer located in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russian Federation. KAMAZ opened their doors in 1976...
"; "The workers took the secret of its construction to the grave."). The prostitute makes fun of the policeman for making less money than she does.
Anastasia Kuznetsova
Waitress Anastassia Kuznetsova (Анастасия Кузнецова) works in IvanovoIvanovo
Ivanovo is a city and the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. Population: Ivanovo has traditionally been called the textile capital of Russia. Since most textile workers are women, it has also been known as the "City of Brides"...
in a sushi restaurant. She is looking for a man and she is only nice to the male customers. The female customers, particularly those who are there with a man, are rudely insulted and brutally thrown out of the restaurant.
Snezhana Denisovna
Elementary school teacher Snezhana Denisovna (Снежана Денисовна) works in VoronezhVoronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...
. She tricks her students into bringing her money from their parents, saying that the money is going for a good cause. She also encourages her students to swear, drink, and steal.
Siphon and Boroda
Homeless Siphon (Сифон, lit. plumbing trapTrap (plumbing)
In plumbing, a trap is a U-, S-, or J-shaped pipe located below or within a plumbing fixture. An S-shaped trap is also known as the S-bend invented by Alexander Cummings in 1775 but became known as the U-bend following the introduction of the U-shaped trap by Thomas Crapper in 1880. The new U-bend...
) and Boroda (Борода, lit. beard) live on the Rublevka
Rublevka
Rublevka or Rublyovka is an unofficial name of a prestigious residential area west of Moscow, Russia. The name is derived from the name of Rublyovskoye shosse. The residences of many Government officials and successful businesspeople are located along Rublevka. Real estate prices there are some of...
highway. Like all the people living there, they are spoiled and they can have anything they want just by looking in the garbage bins, where they find computers, appliances, and Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...
bags. In the fourth season Siphon and Boroda become government officials (see Mamonov and Pronin).
Zhorik Vartanov and Rudik
Zhorik Vartanov (Жорик Вартанов) works in TV station Sev-Kav TV (Сев-Кав ТВ, from Северный КавказNorth Caucasus
The North Caucasus is the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian Seas and within European Russia. The term is also used as a synonym for the North Caucasus economic region of Russia....
) in Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk is a city in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River, about from Mineralnye Vody. Since January 19, 2010 it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia...
. He is very emotional about the stories he reports, gets into arguments with his cameraman Rudik (Рудик), swears and acts in an unprofessional manner.
Alexander Rodionovich Boradach
Alexander Rodionovich Boradach (Александр Родионович Бородач) is a security guard, constantly changing work place (supermarket "Daisy", a shop of musical instruments, etc.). Boradach is a petty thief and drug addict. He also comically emphasizes "R"'s. Example: Alexanderrr Rrrodionovich Borrrodach. "R" French, German or Hebrew. He is always being interrogated by the police, while being filmed on a hand-held camera. He is beaten by the policemen with paper or a newspaper time to time during the interrogation, usually for about 30 seconds - two minutes according to the time on the camera.Gena and Vovan from Nizhny TagilNizhny TagilNizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...
with his video cameraVideo cameraA video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the electromechanical Nipkow disk and used by the BBC in...
AntalyaAntalya
Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...
: Gena (Sergei Svetlakov) and Vovan (Mihail Galustyan) break away from Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...
in full with his video camera on holiday in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. However, they behave quite casually: laugh, drink, walk, spoiled state property, shitting in the pool, making fun of staff and visitors to the Turkish hotel. Constantly used obscene language. Vovan in almost every series is drunk and speaks only one sentence: "Tagiiiil". Sometimes, after the word Gena adds, "Tagil really rules" Humor of this story line is that the behavior of Gena and Vova is a parody of the behavior of many Russians abroad. And Gena, and Vovan - both married, respectively, and Tanyuha mr. Gena, Ksjuha mr. Vovan. Also, the Gena have a son, Dima.
- mr. - Married
Philip Valentinovich and Anna Viktorovna
NovosibirskNovosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
: Philip Valentinovich (Sergei Svetlakov) and Anna Viktorovna — pensioner
Pensioner
In common parlance, a pensioner is a person who has retired, and now collects a pension. This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom and Australia where someone of pensionable age may also be referred to as an 'old age pensioner', or OAP. In the United States, the term retiree is more...
s, who gave 50 years of life working in research institutes. All problems are solved with the use of arms. Do not talk (possibly dumb). The plot lies a satire on the disregard for people of retirement age, the sketch contains black humor (except for the first and second in their history). To all strangers and phenomena are extremely aggressive, even to the innocuous. At the end of the sketch is the tango “The weary sun.”
Dronov and Yermolkina
Ust-Kuzminski (fictional town): Major Dronov, Yegor Sergeevich (Mihail Galustyan) and insightful operative-women Yermolkina Yelena (Sergei Svetlakov) fighting crime in his hometown. And Dronov constantly teaches inexperienced Yermolkina “proper disclosure of affairs”, although this is only the abuse of authority, as the perpetrators — influential people. Dronov always "coughing" at the mention of familiar names and places of work of its owner. Just at the beginning of the sketch he comes out of the chamber, where he brutally beat people for minor offenses (for travel in the bus without a ticket, or obveshivanie people in the market). And at the end of the sketch, he consoled Yermolkina trying secretly to stick to it, but he denies this, citing "examples" with all shorts of heroes of detective novels and TV series. Sometimes Dronov somehow trying to get rid of the evidence, cutting Yermolkina. Humor is based on paying much attention to police petty crime and "excuse" influential people and their relatives.Valera and Vasya
MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
: Football fans: Vasya, a fan from St. Petersburg "Neva" (Mihail Galustyan) and Valera, supporter of the Moscow "Muscovite
Muscovite
Muscovite is a phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula KAl22, or 236. It has a highly-perfect basal cleavage yielding remarkably-thin laminæ which are often highly elastic...
or Moskvich ( Москвич)" (Roman Yunusov) together are treated in hospital after the match as a result of the mass brawl and end up in the same room. Even dressed in cast, they manage to do harm to each other. It is clear that football clubs fictional, but their logo - an obvious allusion to "Spartak Moscow" and "Zenit SPB", the fans who have hostile relations with each other.